Small_Simple_Ships

This book was like 1k up until recently. More copies have been listed, and the price has dropped dramatically. I’ve been wanting to grab one for a long time. One of my favorite researchers was there, and went to a somewhat secret attached meeting with the Dalai Lama to discuss the abduction phenomenon.

🚨Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference Andrea Pritchard, David E. Pritchard, John E. Mack, Pam Kasey, Claudia Yapp, eds. North Cambridge Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994 Unabridged proceedings from the MIT Abduction Study Conference, June 13–17, 1992 This wasn’t a typical UFO book. It came out of a full conference built to examine the abduction phenomenon in a more formal, organized way. The event was chaired by MIT physicist David E. Pritchard and co-chaired by Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack The purpose of the book was to bring together the main arguments, methods, case patterns, and disputes in abduction research into one record not just stories, but selection criteria, medical claims, hypnosis, psychology, cross cultural patterns, and physical evidence Inside are papers and presentations from many of the key names tied to the subject, including John E. Mack David E. Pritchard Budd Hopkins David M. Jacobs Thomas E. Bullard Richard F. Haines Mark Rodeghier Jenny Randles Thomas A. Benson That is part of what makes this book so important. It captures a rare moment when the subject was brought into a major university setting and documented at scale Books like this are much harder to find than they should be given how important they are to the history of abduction research #UFO #UAP #Aliens #UFOTwitter #Disclosure

This printed email in the Bob Renaud / Wendelle Stevens UFO files circa March, 2005 has some fun (now obsolete) emails. Phil Klass is on there, and some other names you’ll recognize. Klass actually passed away just months after this was sent.

@DeDunkingPast We did entirely forget how to make “Fogbank” for the nukes. They had to figure that back out.

For those who can’t fathom how techniques could be lost over time, those who mock the idea the ancients made things we today cannot, I present to you the humble laserdisc. Manufactured from the mid 70s to the early 00s. Find me a place to make more. We CANNOT make them today.

@TheProjectUnity We didn’t stop making grand things like this. We still make them, they are just a lot smaller.

What did humanity lose that stopped us making things like this?

@ViceLitty @TheProjectUnity Ornate cathedrals are not crafted through acts of leisure.

@TheProjectUnity Leisure time The average commoner worked 140 days a year for their yearly earnings The rest of the year was leisure, groundskeeping etc. People would devote extra time back to the Church and the result was that we communally built Cathedrals Only modern working hours stopped this

@RareUFOVault It was Wendelle. He, Tom, and APRO were all here in Tucson.

Alexandre Laugier — French engineer doing data-driven UFO research APRO — major early UFO research group Tom Sanger — part of the document chain W. Stevens — likely Wendelle Stevens archive France → APRO → Stevens → now here

French UFO research from the early 80s “Detection du phénomène OVNI en France” by Alexandre Laugier A 5-year study trying to track patterns, timing, and sightings across France This specific copy is tied to Tom Sanger (March 10, 1982) and comes out of the Files of W. Stevens Looks like it was mailed out of Calgary, Alberta, which is interesting by itself Also sent to APRO, so you’re seeing how this stuff was moving between researchers worldwide Inside: – charts breaking down sightings by date/time – maps showing paths and locations – lab setups used to actually measure things – handwritten note asking for the latest UFO catalog This is how people were really studying it before the internet Small networks, mailing lists, sharing data back and forth #UFO #UAP #UFOHistory #Disclosure #ufotwitter

@SmaragdinaVisio @dave43law @DailyMail 4/10 and 9/80 schedules are common

From the article I believe some are working a compressed working week where they do 5 days work in 4 days. So instead of working say 8 hours a day they are doing 10, then having the 5th day off. Of course this kind of flexible working is enough to drive a Daily Mail reader apoplectic.

Will be employed on flexi time / hybrid contracts Minister dubbed a 'hypocrite' for letting staff work 4-day weeks mol.im/a/15669937 via @DailyMail

Mid-century UFO contactees Howard & Connie Menger. Back in the 1950s, and again in the 2000s. In it for the long run.

@skscartoon That’s one of my favorite planes.

I believe this is the answer to the Drone problem.

@cosmicfauxpas Isn’t there actually some sort of FEMA Waffle House Index? Like if Waffle House is closed in an area, it means it’s a true emergency because them shits never close. What a wonderful place for a FEMA fella to materialize.

future shawn ryan podcast guest

Non-believers don't believe that believers really believe. It harms their understanding of the world.

@UapStudies I’ve never fully understood the utility of researching cases in this fashion. What sort of information are you gathering/documenting?

I never thought that I would investigate my own case but I set off first thing this morning as I wasn't able to sleep anyways

@memizon Awesome. Can you tell me anything about the year and contents?

@ShipsSmall I came across this while rearranging my UFO magazines:

This is a book about Hopi kachinas that belonged to famous UFO fella George Hunt Williamson. He had dozens of books about kachinas. This one is my favorite because it’s in large and in color. I like to read through it and read the descriptions of the different beings. That sio humis guy caught my attention today.

Some oldschool @CryptoLoren tapes up for grabs on the bay

Reading some of Jung's last essays from the 1950s. One conclusion he reached is that religious beliefs, or political beliefs that amounted to religious ones, can only be countered by other religious beliefs. It's likely to me that in the mid 20th century contest of ideas, of liberalism versus authoritarianism, the west sought to fashion a new religion with scientific, universalist qualities. It well could be that what I've come to call "the UFO thing" played a role in this. Jung himself performed an able analysis of its deep psychic appeal. I doubt this analysis went unnoticed by the self-styled civilizational engineers.

I think that scale system is wrong. Humanity’s greatest achievements used to be giant stone monuments, but now they are nano scale chips etched into silicon. Technology seems to evolve in a way that makes everything smaller, and more efficient. Not larger. A super advanced civilization likely wouldn’t have a dyson sphere wrapped around their home star, and giant planet-sized shapeships. They’d have figured out a way to create/capture energy that was much more efficient, and that didn’t require absurd physical infrastructure. And their ships would likely be tiny, fast, efficient probes that had advanced technology or AI/consciousness embedded in them. Or they’d forego ships entirely and have a teleportation system. I think the whole framing of the Kardashev system is off.

Any self-respecting civilization needs to reach at least Kardashev II

In the 1980s, legendary UFO crash/retrieval grandpappy Leonard Stringfield still had some of his Saucer Post books, as well as original printed issues of his CRIFO Orbit Newsletters from the 1950s. In this signed inquiry letter from 1985, he tells you that you can get a full set of the newsletters for 20 bones. And that INCLUDES postage. Slammin deal, as clean sets are like 900 schlamekels these days, if you can even find them. Individual issues, loosey cigarettes, are still kinda uncommon. Full sets are the rarest rose 🌹

One of my kids is an autistic savant with eidetic memory. Wildly intelligent, almost certainly experiencing life in a way that would be unrecognizable to you or me. We pulled her out of public school when she was very young, and switched her to homeschooling so that her unique situation could be better accommodated. In 5th grade, she started taking courses through Arizona State University, but needed to get an IEP in place for logistical reasons. They had to test her in various categories for the IEP, and she very quickly blew through all the course material the test admin had, especially in things having to do with language and writing. The admin fell in love with her, and scheduled the following day with her, purely out of curiosity, to bring additional materials in and see how far she could go. She quickly tested through all of the college level language material, and the admin ran out of stuff to run by her. I bring all of this up to tell you how tickled I was by her fascination with this ice filled endcap display at the gas station. She was deeply interested in it, and had dozens of questions. About why it’s there, about the legality of taking the ice, etc.